I told you last month, when President Trump first accused his predecessor of wiretapping him, that the news media would be interested in any information that might confirm Obama and/or his administration had wrongly spied on Team Trump. What they would do instead, I told you, was act as Obama's lawyer - demanding that Trump himself prove his precise, literal charge rather than doing any of their own reporting designed to find out if something like what Trump alleged had actually happened.
That's one way defense attorneys defend their clients - they parse words and nitpick with literalisms. Maybe he did something wrong, but you said something very literal and specific and you can't prove he did that. Case dismissed!
